>>/7134/ > people have meltdowns on 4chan these past 10 years > 2014 was 10 years ago > 2014 was the year of the gamergate Yeah it's quite the tipping point in 4chan history. Especially after that phoneposting became a natural trend which increased the number of posters and took away that comfy outcast corner of the internet feeling. I mean I know every year people had the gripes that 4chan is going to shit but it's important to notice the trends because after the blight of phoneposters we got the bots and glows because 4chan was too influential to be left alone at that level. Darn. 2014 was 10 years ago. Also every sperg reddit had and got banned became a refugee on 4chan didn't help through the years. At least altchans are still too weird and scary for normalfags. I am still mad at discord for siphoning half the people who are willing to engage in conversations tho. So many things happened on the internet in the past 10 years. It was when the social media monopolies started to kill all their competition and now they are an "empire in decline" monopoly stage which means we are a collapse away from a potential internet Renaissance. Except ofc if malicious forces keep these rotten corpses afloat by artificial means. But I am hopeful. They know they cannot over-regulate the internet because they don't have the personnel and AI is still not mastered in a way it can do it in a sustainable/predictable way. > every other day some sperg is seething about something and it's just really funny You sure this only started in 2014? I feel like this was there all the time. But then again I'm an "eternal newfag" by the 4chan timeline chart. > most trivial things like drinking water I remember the gamer fuel sperging threads. Also obsessing over water makes you right wing. Don't forget that leftist article. > or walking virgin walk vs chad stride ... Okay I will stop. This just proves how wired my mind is to the internet. There will be a day where I will have to cut this attachment too. There was a lesson where I got the understanding of the illusory nature of the self. It was beautiful religious symbols beings different archetypal forces manifesting in a beautiful way. I was amazed. Then 2 female entity appeared and they said: "These manifestations are too archaic we can do better than this". Then all the divine visions turned into wojaks and other absolutely shitty memes on that level explaining the inherent and apparent "dominance" and submission forces between the selves how they create a large collective on their own. It was horrible. I have seen memes that was never posted but I knew their meaning. I wanted to tell them to stop showing me that vision but I realized that the horror I experienced in that moment showed how deeply my obsession is with that "culture" and in the end how accurately depicts the things and asking them to "stop" was not something I should do. I had to endure that and feel all my folly of using this place as a cornerstone of my mental workings. Very few experience came as close on the horror level as that. The reason why I felt it as horrifying because it was "new". That understanding was born from the modern world from the current internet era. There is nothing that can compare. Understanding how the "Internet" made my current incarnation "special" was one of my most unpleasant realization of mine. I am everything but proud of that but I must accept that the internet is still an untapped potential and disregarding it is a mistake. I will have to decide how I apply the internet on my path on the long run.